So let's all extend some kindness and empathy towards others when we see their flaws.
This is one sort of character that Saunders has written about for more than 20 years—sometimes filleting them with dark absurdist humor, and more recently extending some precarious empathy.
Talk about the struggle and offer some empathy.
The book is also an extended argument with the philosopher Peter Singer, who bases his case for animal rights in part on the fact that some animals are more cognitively capable than the intellectually disabled people to whom we already extend our empathy.
If you are genuinely unable to apply your imagination and extend your empathy far enough – and you don't have to do it all at once; little by little will suffice, but you must get there – then you are a sociopath, and we should all be protected from your actions.
In a previous article, called "Is it Possible to Love All Humanity?", Greater Good even covered a study suggesting that people who are more likely than others to extend their empathy beyond their immediate social circle tend to be much more anxious.
Says Penry, "Sometimes I only extend my empathy – a member's post just grabs me by the heart and I can't let it pass.
l hope that gay people will never forget what it means to be the "other" -- black, poor -- and will extend their empathy to the struggles of those who still suffer from all kinds of injustice.
CCARE put forward the idea that 'empathy' is generally a more instinctive and reactive emotional state, whereas 'compassion' extends beyond empathy to some sort of positive action or mindful intervention.
I have found myself questioning why I am sometimes unable to extend the same empathy towards modern-day criminals that I do to characters such as Jack Sheppard.
Look at what happens in the wake of a shooting by police like the ones last week in Minnesota and Louisiana and Texas: The relatives of the victims are clearly grieving and traumatized, yet they are pushed to extend empathy and forgiveness to those who killed their loved ones, and to the system that profits from these tragedies.
